Milan Kundera to receive State Award Literature for Literature 2007

Czech writer Milan Kundera, who has been living in Paris since leaving Czechoslovakia in 1975, will be awarded the State Award for Literature for 2007, according to the Society of Czech Writers. Mr Kunder is internationally renowned as the author of novels The Unbearable Lightness of Being, The Joke, and others. He is not expected to personally attend the awarding ceremony that will take place in Prague on 25th October. The State Award for Literature was established in 1920 and renewed in 1995. It is awarded for an exceptional work published within the last year, or for life-long contribution to literature.